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DEGAS, Hilaire Germain Edgar (1834-1917)

"DANSEUSES AU FOYER"

Oil: 24 x 19-3/4"

Red Degas Stamp lower right.

Painted ca. 1874-78.

Ballet dancers in white bodices, pale blue skirts and pink stockings and slippers limbering up before appearing on the stage. A group of three stand before a window in various attitudes while only the outstretched leg and skirt of a fourth dancer is visible. In the right foreground a fifth dancer, seen three-quarters from the back, rests her leg on a bench on which lie an extra pair of pink slippers, while she adjusts the ribbons of her shoe. In back of her, partly obscured by her costume, a person (probably a girl wearing men's tights) in red coat and white jabot looks on. Floor and walls of mottled pale orange and green with blue sky and white clouds seen through the uncurtained window.

Collections: Degas (First Sale, May 1918, No.70 sold for 56,000 Francs to Stettiner)
Robert Treat Paine II, Boston

Reproduced: Catalogue of First Degas Sale, Paris, May 1918, No. 70, Page 40.

Bibliography: Wilenski "Modern French Painters", Page 332 ("Classe de Danses", Boston, Robert Treat Paine II)

Exhibited: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on indefinite loan from 1932.